prototype: flammen
When seen in the same room this prototype looks like a magic trick, but when placed in different locations it gives a sign of remote presence: I light a candle in my room, a (LED) candle is lit in your room. When I blow out the flame of my candle your light goes out as…
prototype: light to light
This prototype captures light in one location and a light source in another location responds to that. Mainly thought as a way of capturing ambient light, so you can know if it is dark or light, but also if someone passes through the room (it picks up shadows). It can also be used as a…
prototype: puls
Puls was one of the first ideas I had for the Touching at a Distance project: That a person can feel the heartbeat of another person. It can also work in both directions so each person can have both a puls sender and receiver. I have tried out a variety of prototypes over the last…
prototype: trigger bell
Probably the most basic of the prototypes, trigger bell is inspired by the sound of a bell when a door is opened in a shop. The idea is (as in all the prototypes) that the door and the bell are in different locations. Again, the video just demonstrates the functionality of the objects communicating in…
prototype: kula
I drop a small ball into a tube in my location. It rolls out of a tube in your location. My original idea with this one was that the ball would be a kind of “thinking of you” message. You don´t have to be there when the ball comes out of the tube. And nothing…
prototype: knock box
I knock a series of knocks on my box. Your box repeats the knocks I sent to you. You knock back to me, and my box knocks your knocks to me. An example of a two-way communication. The blog has been very quiet unfortunately, but I have been working hard in periods with the projects…
Some influences and departure points for the project
This project has many influences, but I would especially like to mention three of them. LiveForm Telekinetics by Michelle Teran and Jeff Mann was a series of happenings and workshops between 2004 and 2009. Check out the video documentation in the link above . This is how they described the project: “The LiveForm:Telekinetics (LF:TK) project…
the prototype table
Just a quick overview of the various prototypes at the moment. Some are still rough sketches, while others are in the early testing phase with users.
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